Folds Cottage

Folds Cottage, Folds Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1151720
Date first listed:: 27-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: Folds Cottage
Statutory Address:: Folds Cottage, Folds Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1151720
Date first listed:: 27-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: Folds Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Folds Cottage, Folds Lane

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Folds Cottage, Folds Lane

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Maltby
National Grid Reference:: SK5764190656

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 59 SE 9/60

FOLDS LANE Folds Cottages

13.11.59

II

House now two unoccupied cottages with attached outbuildings partly in the parish of Maltby. 1750 by Mr Platt for Lord Scarborough (Beastall, p83). Ashlar and coursed rubble magnesian limestone; Westmorland slate Welsh slate and pantile roofs. T-shaped, two-storey, three-bay house with one-storey, one-bay side pavilions in Palladian style; rear angles of main range balled by two-storey outshuts (not of special interest) pavilions linked by walls to one-storey, three-bay outbuildings of c1750 facing onto rear garden.

Main house, west front: plinth, rusticated ground floor. Raised central panel with steps to door beneath flat arch and modillion cornice. Outer bays have boarded-up windows with voussoirs of flat arches aligned with courses, window on right is narrower. First floor deep band linked to sill band by plain window aprons; central Ionic Venetian window with moulded sill, pilasters and pulvinated frieze, windows to outer bays have moulded sills, shouldered architraves, pulvinated friezes and cornices, Cornice and blocking course to nipped roof Side pavilions set back, each have: rusticated quoins and square-faced surround with keystone to semi-domed niche; eaves cornice and blocking course, to nipped roof with ridge stack.

Rear: wing has quoined rubble walling and round-headed window on each floor, eaves band and cornice; rendered stacks to eaves of main range. Pair of outbuildings to rear left and rear right attached by coped walls with gateways each have central bay breaking forward with door and adjoining windows in raised ashlar surrounds, outer bays with similar doorways, nipped roof Rear-right outbuilding incorporates later brick lean-to (not of special interest).

Interior: in poor condition at time of resurvey. Central imperial staircase now divided by partition wall, remains of original wrought- iron handrail. Ground- floor room on left has crinoidal limestone fireplace with fluted keystone on lintel set beneath a scroll-topped plaster overmantel, remains of plaster wall panels and or enriched cornice to decorative ceiling (mostly collapsed) having acanthus motifs. First floor: subdivided single room with fragment of original plain coving. Said to have been built for Lord Scarborough's chaplain although the staircase and upper room suggest a grander occasional use.

Accounts of John Billam, Estate Steward, note that in 1750 stone was being laid to build a new house the Folds and that Mr. Platt was paid £50 on account in the same year. Mr. Platt is no doubt George Platt of Rotherham and this building is of particular interest in that it predates the involvement ofJames Paine with the Sandbeck estate.

T.W. Beastall, A North Country Estate, 1974.

Listing NGR: SK 57641 90656

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Legacy System number:: 334330
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Beastall, T W , A North Country Estate, (1974), 83

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.